Package: lirc
Version: 0.7.1pre2-2
Severity: normal

Installing lirc results in a prompt asking whether LIRC device nodes should
be created.  This is unnecessary user interaction in a maintainer script,
which is best avoided; Policy 10.6 currently allows calling MAKEDEV after
*notifying* the user, instead of having to ask for the user's approval.
Please convert this debconf prompt into a debconf note, so that it does not
interrupt the installation process.

In addition, it should never be necessary to ask a user "Should I create the
device nodes *if they are not there*": you should be able to *check* whether
they are there, and skip the prompt if no device creation is needed...

Cheers,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]                                   http://www.debian.org/

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